The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT jobs advertised for the Darlington region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the Darlington region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 11 4 14
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +10
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 1 12 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Darlington 4.545% 26.09% 3.125%
As % of the General category 14.29% 57.14% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 12 1
Average salary - £33,250 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -30.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
All of the General Category
Darlington
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
7 21 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Darlington 31.82% 45.65% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5 20 3
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £26,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £41,100 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Telecoms
Durham

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Darlington region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Darlington Telecoms Jobs Demand Trend

Telecoms
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Darlington region.

Darlington Telecoms Salary Trend

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Darlington region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Telecoms.

1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) VB.NET
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) J2EE
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) ASP
2 3 (75.00%) JSP
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) PHPUnit
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) MCDST
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) HNC
3 1 (25.00%) HND
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) VoIP
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) SLA
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Darlington region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) J2EE
1 3 (75.00%) ASP
1 3 (75.00%) JSP
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Field Service Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Field Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (25.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCDST
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) HNC
1 1 (25.00%) HND
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft